The Birds and the Bees ~ by Dot Allan

"The Birds and the Bees"

is my 3rd DT piece for The Artistic Stamper!

Spring is in the air up North and the flowers are starting to pop out and brighten everyone's gardens up.  

Flowers, birds and bees are the first thing that come to mind 

and seemed appropriate for this card.

Like the other two projects, I have used specialty paper 

and re-inkers as my base.

My inspiration has come from the "Botanical Plate 1" 

and "Birds of a Feather" stamp sets 

from Jennie's shop...these really are gorgeous stamps!

The background has been kept fairly simple, then splattered with distress inks.  I am trying to "embrace white", 

which isn't all that easy to do when you are use to working with

lots of ink.

This lot of pics shows a step x step progression of the masking 

that I used to build up the 

base story of the card.

(sorry if the pics aren't quite focused, but it had to be stamped and photographed quickly as the light was fading fast)

To finish the card off I have added some dimension by

stamping more flowers onto scrap pieces of the background,

fussy cutting and adding using magic mount.
This just adds that little bit more depth and gives the chance to throw in some more colour to make it pop.

Some tissue tape on the edges.

And mounting the piece onto black cardstock

that has been edged with Fresco Finish Paints.

I like how they have kept their colour on the black cardstock!

I have had heaps of fun this month here at 

The Artistic Stamper  

and I would like to thank Jennie and her team for inviting

me over to play.

The Artistic Stamper Stamps ~

• Botanical Plate 1
• Birds of a Feather
• Insects and Butterflies

Other Stamps ~

• Stampers Anonymous - Urban Chic
• Stampers Anonymous - Nature Walk

Other Items ~

• Tissue tape
• Specialty paper
• Archival re-inkers
• Distress inks
• Fresco Finish Paints
• Versafine - black onyx
• gold pen

  Enjoy!